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3 Items On General Musharraf's Speech of June 25,
2003
1. Musharraf's View of Pakistan: A Secular State
Under
U.S.
Tutelage
2. Who wrote Musharraf's Speech?
3. Zionist
Christians Distributing Stories of
"Oppression of Christians" in
Pakistan.
1. "BUSH:
SINCERE FRIEND OF PAKISTAN." [General
Musharraf]
General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's
military coup leader, spoke to a
gathering organized by the Institute of Peace at
the Capital Hilton Hotel in
Washington, DC. He got a very supportive
introduction from Richard Solomon, the
Jewish President of the Institute of Peace.
i. Musharraf's speech focused on the help he has
given the U.S. to defeat
Al-Qaida. He proudly proclaimed that he has
helped to "break the back of
Al-Qaida." Taking credit for Bush's victory in
the
"war on terrorism,"
Musharraf
announced that "Al-Qaida is a shadow of its past
owing to our efforts."
[Comment: Musharraf did not mention that Osama
bin Laden survived and only
recently there have been Al-Qaida type attacks in
Saudi Arabia and Morocco. How
can al-Qaida carry out such attacks with a broken
back?]
ii. Musharraf claimed that he is very popular in
Pakistan. He said that he
senses that "people want me at the helm of
affairs." As proof, he pointed out
though he has had "20 days of roaming around,"
there have been no disturbances
in Pakistan.
[Comment: Musharraf's last attempt at proving his
popularity was the
"referendum" which though rigged to ensure his
"victory" got only 15% turnout.
Musharraf's friends, like Ms. Weaver, admit that
the referendum was a disaster for
him. He does not hold public meetings in
Pakistan. The opposition has not held
any demonstrations in his absence because people
like Qazi Hussain Ahmed are
very "decent" opponents, and in the fierce heat
of June, demonstrations are
almost unknown.]
iii. Musharraf's VIEW OF PAKISTAN's FUTURE is
that Pakistan should follow the
path of "moderation" under U.S. supervision,
with American dollars, and
should improve its educational system and get rid
of poverty. Such "reforms" are
one part of his "pincer movement" and the other
"pincer" is U.S. resolution to
support Pakistan's "moderation." For Musharraf,
the same forces which oppose
America are impediments in his future "vision."
He called these forces
'militancy' and 'extremism.'
[Comment: For Musharraf, there is no role for
Islam in Pakistan. Any serious
attempt to implement Islam, however peaceful, is
for him "extremism" and
"militancy." His attitude can be seen in his
efforts to stop Islamic Law from being
implemented in Frontier Provinc though the Law
has been UNANIMOUSLY approved
by the elected Provincial Assembly. Thus for
Pakistan to become Musharraf's
Pakistan, it would have to become a colony of the
U.S. Essentially Musharraf and
Pakistan are mutually exclusive.]
iv. KASHMIR.
This is a favorite topic of
Musharraf because it gives him the
opportunity to present himself as a patriot. He
referred to the "centrality of
Jammu & Kashmir" as an issue for
Pakistan.However, he is against any conflict
on Kashmir and made the major mistake of showing
his cards. In his words: "We
do not believe in violence." He is very
encouraged by the "steps" towards
peace which
India's
Vajpayee has taken and
praised America's "great work" in that
context.
[However, anyone who paid attention to
Musharraf's speech would realize: HE
IS NOT GOING TO, EVER, ATTEMPT TO LIBERATE
KASHMIR. For him the 'centrality' of
Kashmir lies in talking about it. If India is
willing to talk about Kashmir,
talks can go on for ever, while India hunts down
and crushes the Kashmiri
resistance. Vajpayee and Bush are playing this
game with Musharraf's help to fool
both Pakistanis and Kashmiris.]
v. PHIOSOPHY: Musharraf believes that Muslims who
believe that "Islam is
being targeted" by the U.S. are wrong. Also, he
says that Americans who think
Islam is a religion of "terrorism" are wrong. He
wants to help the puppet
government of Karzai, installed by the U.S. in
Kabul, in the process of
"reconstruction." He wants the U.S. to re-assure
Muslims that the wars in
Afghanistan
and
Iraq
were not against Muslims or Islam.
[Comment: For comfortable, middle class Muslims,
if Bush issues such
statements, it might be re-assuring. Once in a
while, increasingly rarely, Bush does
issue them. Perhaps Musharraf thinks Muslims will
be fooled if they are told
that the
Ka'aba
will not be attacked, or the Hajj
will not be cleared through
the FBI, or the Qur'an's jihad verses will not be
censored. Musharraf is fooling
only himself. Even sincere secularized Muslims
can see that it is a war
against Islam.]
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2. WHO WRITES MUSHARRAF's SPEECHES? Why no
ISLAMIC QUESTIONS WERE ALLOWED?
Obviously, with a Jewish President, the U.S.
Institute of Peace seemed
to have carefully screened the people who came to
Musharraf's meeting. Note:
1. There was NO recitation from the Qur'an.
2. There was no discussion or question which
would show that Pakistan is an
Islamic nation.
3. There was NO statement or question which would
bring up the facts that
MILLIONS in EVERY PAKISTANI city have protested
against Bush-Musharref policies
and have condemned the bombing of Afghanistan and
Iraq.
4. The questioners seemed to be hard core
secularists, attacking Pakistan's
blasphemy laws (which forbid abuse of the
Prophet, pbuh) and laws against
adultery.
5. The only genuine question came from a Sindhi
nationalist who spoke on the
divisive issue of Thal Canal and the division of
water between the provinces.
This gave Musharraf an opportunity to "prove"
that he cares for all of
Pakistan. However, he fudged the point that he
has received lands for himself at
throwaway prices. He claimed that he had received
only "2 squares" and these are
given to every officer.
[NOTE : According to Pakistan's leading daily
Nawa-e-Waqt, which defies
every dictator, Musharraf and other generals have
acquired substantial lands at
throwaway prices.]
6. There was no question about Centcom's web site
which shows that Musharraf
just about gave all of Pakistan to the U.S. for
its devastation of Afghanistan
and in the process suffered $12 billion in
losses.
MUSHARRAF READ ALMOST HIS ENTIRE SPEECH. It
had probably been written
for him by someone from a U.S. think tank where
Pakistani agents serve. He used
terms like "macro economic indicators" and
"ethos" and "win-win outcomes" and
"structural" problems in Pakistan's economy.
Anyone who knows Musharraf would
know that these terms are not part of his mental
horizon. He had to
scrutinize his speech like a football player
reading a plagiarized paper.
There is a little slur in Musharraf's speech
which brought out one of
the unwitting bits of humor in his speech. He
claimed that today "41,000 women
are shitting" in offices in Pakistan, more than
ever before. [Probably he meant
"sitting.]
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OPPRESSION OF CHRISTIANS IN PAKISTAN? Musharraf
Surprised.
Last Christmas, New Trend published
eyewitness accounts of the prosperity
and success of Christians in Pakistan. New Trend
went to churches and talked
to Christian activists. However, a bunch of
Christian Zionist-types are
spreading stories of "oppression of Christians in
Pakistan." Musharraf claims to be
the supporter of Christians in Pakistan; he does
not realize that if you give
zionists an inch, they will take an ell.
So following Musharraf's speech, a female
reporter from the Washington
Times wanted to know why he was not doing
anything to stop the rapes of
Christian women in Pakistan and that acid had
been thrown on the face of one
woman. [She related it to the Iraq war.]
Musharraf
expressed complete ignorance of any such case.
For once, we would agree with
Musharraf. There have NO ATTACKS on Christians
related to the Iraq war. Such
stories are fabrications and are unverifiable.
WASHINGTON TIMES,
however, continued its
propaganda and published the
"rape" story in its June 28 issue under the
heading : "Christians besieged in
Pakistan." The Times' source is a man named
Shabazz Bhatti, chairman of an
unknown "All Pakistan Minorities Alliance.' He
claims that a 9-year-old Razia
Masih, was raped on April 26 in Faisalabad. [If
any Pakistani reader of New Trend
has any verifiable information on this story, do
let us know.]
BY CONTRAST, Muslim women are humiliated and
sometimes killed by
ignorant, macho men, often owing to Musharraf's
inability to provide law and security
to the poorer people of Pakistan. Owing to
growing Jamaate Islami movement
and the surge of the Jihad movement led by Hafiz
Saeed, women are respected and
honored in Pakistan. However, on the governmental
scale, Musharraf is a
failure in the area of
women's
rights.
[Most of
the women he was referring to in the
National Assembly of Pakistan, are not for him
but against him, especially
the fiery muslimahs who wear head coverings and
face veils. How brazen of him to
try and take credit for the achievements of the
Islamic movement!]
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